From: vruz@...
Date: 2001-12-15T00:47:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28516] Re: Ruby entry In the Dictionary of Programming languages

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Olivier CARRERE wrote:

> In <007101c18420$c74cbec0$1eafb5d4@telia.com>, Henning von Rosen wrote:
>
> > In the Dictionary of Programming languages
> > http://cgibin.erols.com/ziring/cgi-bin/cep/cep.pl?_key=Ruby , one can
> > read:
> >
> >
> > ..Ruby supports many important OO features, including classes with
> > inheritance, class methods, and even closures. Ruby also supports
> > exceptions with functionality similar to that of Java. ___It does not
> > seem to support reflection___. Ruby does support threading...
> >
> > Your opinion?
>
> Strangely, I can read on the page :
>
> "....Ruby also supports exceptions with functionality similar to that of
> Java. Ruby supports a variety of kinds of introspection, including
> Java-style reflection and Lisp-style enumeration of active objects. The
> syntax of Ruby's reflection support is simpler than that of Java. Ruby
> does support threading..."
>
> This has been changed meanwhile :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Olivier
>

that was updated last night, Olivier, after the
author of the page was helped  to
collect the right information he needed to
correct the omissions and inacurracies.


vruz